Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry is a 2005 animated direct-to-video
Direct-to-video
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 film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 starring the oscar-winning cat and mouse pair, Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

. The subtitle is a parody of the hit Universal Studios
Universal Studios
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 film, The Fast and The Furious
The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)
The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 street racing action film starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster. Directed by Rob Cohen, The Fast and the Furious was the first mainstream film to feature the Asian automotive import scene in North America. It is the first film...

. It was released theatrically in select cites of the U.S. by Kidtoon Films
Kidtoon Films
Kidtoon Films is a distributor of children's animated films in the United States. The company is a subsidiary of The Bigger Picture, a Cinedigm company. Formerly owned by SD Entertainment, which produces many of its releases...

.

Plot

After being evicted from their old house by Tom's owner for causing major damage, cat and mouse Tom
Tom Cat
Thomas "Tom" Cat is a fictional character and half of the academy-award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon cat-and-mouse duo. He is a blue/grey anthropomorphic cat who first appeared in the 1940 animated short Puss Gets the Boot...

 and Jerry
Jerry Mouse
Jerry Mouse is a fictional animated character, one of the main characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic mouse, who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss...

 enter a race/reality show entitled the "Fabulous Super Race" to win a mansion. They supposedly will share the mansion, but that is unclear until the end of the movie. Tom and Jerry then go to a junk shop to build their cars. They race each other to Globwobbler Studios and meet J.W. Globwobbler and his assistant, Irving. Presenting the race on television and acting as commentators are Biff Buzzard and Buzz Blister (not to be confused with Buzz Lightyear
Buzz Lightyear
Buzz Lightyear is a character and the main deuteragonist of the Toy Story franchise. Buzz is a space ranger action figure and the co-leader of Andy's Room. He has also appeared in the movie Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins and the television series spin-off Buzz Lightyear of...

), whom they last met in Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars is a Tom and Jerry outer-space-themed direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.-Plot:...

who were the astronauts who traveled to Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...

 with Tom and Jerry stowing aboard. They were fired at the end for wrongly saying there was no life on Mars. The two now met the contestants: Steed Dirkly, Grammy, Gorthan the Destroyer of Light, Mallory "Soccer Mom" Macdoogle, Dr. Professor, a contestant who was eliminated before the race after Biff touches a Do Not Touch button causing him to explode and Tom and Jerry, whom Buzz and Biff apparently don't recognize from the last film.

The racers begin the race in Hollywood. When they encounter traffic, they all, except for Soccer Mom, move up their cars in order to cross. Tom chases Jerry until he sees the tunnel where he falls at the road causing the other racers to hit him. The racers are now traveling out of the U.S. The race is initially from California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, but due to public ratings of the event, Globwobbler then pushes the finish line farther away to Amazon Basin Jungle. The first extended leg of the race is to the Amazon
Amazon Basin
The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries that drains an area of about , or roughly 40 percent of South America. The basin is located in the countries of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela...

 rainforest. During the leg, Tom switches a sign causing contestant Mallory "Soccer Mom" Macdoogle to drive her car into a pit of quicksand
Quicksand
Quicksand is a colloid hydrogel consisting of fine granular matter , clay, and water.Water circulation underground can focus in an area with the optimal mixture of fine sands and other materials such as clay. The water moves up and then down slowly in a convection-like manner throughout a column...

. She initially tries to escape using a computer rescue help system, but the system takes too long and she gets out of the car using its open sunroof
Sunroof
An automotive sunroof is a fixed or operable opening in an automobile roof which allows light and/or fresh air to enter the passenger compartment. Sunroofs may be manually operated or motor driven, and are available in many shapes, sizes and styles...

. She switches the sign back and gives Jerry an orange slice. She then ventures into the jungle. Tom then attempts to cut a bridge, in an attempt to eliminate Jerry. However, Jerry gets to the end of the bridge and Tom's car is set on reverse and falls into piranha-infested waters. However, he gets back up with a contraption in his car. Then J.W. changes the leg to get more ratings. The hosts, Biff and Buzz, then announce the next leg of the race is set in Antarctica, and they will have to modify their cars for water transport.

In the water, a lightning bolt hits an umbrella in contestant Steed Dirkly's car, causing it to sink. He spots a mermaid on an island, but it turns out she is a monster and feeds Steed to her offspring. The first contestant to reach Antarctic grounds is Gorthan, "Destroyer of Light." However, in a dare by the hosts to test the "your tongue sticks to a cold metal pole" trick (the "triple dog dare" trick from A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, including material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It was directed by Bob Clark...

), his tongue gets stuck and his portion of the ice breaks, eliminating him and leaving him floating away, but not before cursing Biff and Buzz for the trick. Before the next leg of the race, Tom throws contestant Grammy's dog, Squirty into a whale
Whale
Whale is the common name for various marine mammals of the order Cetacea. The term whale sometimes refers to all cetaceans, but more often it excludes dolphins and porpoises, which belong to suborder Odontoceti . This suborder also includes the sperm whale, killer whale, pilot whale, and beluga...

's mouth and she follows inside and is eaten, supposedly eliminating her. During the leg, Tom and Jerry, the only remaining racers for now, race each other across Antarctica. Meanwhile, in the production office, the producer is notified that the ratings of the race are up and they need something to keep them up. The hosts are then notified that the racers will be modify their cars to stay underwater.

Back in Antarctica, Tom drives through a pile of snow, freezes into a block, and falls out of his car, riding down the slope. When the racers get past the finish line, Biff and Buzz notice that Tom is not in his vehicle and state that he needs to be in his car to stay in the race. Jerry then goes into the water in his modified car. Tom later shows up, after Jerry has continued racing into the ocean, riding down the slope in a block of ice and skidding into his car. The force lands him into the water, where he defrosts. Meanwhile, he modifies his car and takes off. However, sharks try to eat him but he is safe inside his glass air dome. Jerry then lends the sharks a glass cutter, and they get into his car, but he is able to eventually kick them out. He later crashes into a block of concrete and an anchor falls on top his car, supposedly eliminating him. In the production office, the producer decides to bring Tom back into the race because his tricks kept the ratings up. The movie cuts to Jerry in Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, the next leg. Also, Grammy is brought back when the whale spits her out into Australia. Tom is then brought back up with the assistant of the producer flying to Australia to give him CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is an emergency procedure which is performed in an effort to manually preserve intact brain function until further measures are taken to restore spontaneous blood circulation and breathing in a person in cardiac arrest. It is indicated in those who are unresponsive...

. Tom then repairs his car and cuts Australia into half using a laser, in an attempt to get into first place. However, angry because Tom has destroyed half of his home, Punchy, a boxing kangaroo, attacks Tom. Jerry and Grammy are able to survive.

The next leg of the race involves them modifying their cars for air travel to Borneo
Borneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

, which all three do with balloons. However, Tom pops Grammy's balloon, causing their car to fall. Grammy and Squirty then fight for a parachute, which turns out to be a lunch bag, and they fall to their deaths with their car following them and squashing them as it hits the ground. However, Tom's balloons start popping and Grammy and Squirty's spirits then come up and pop Tom's final balloon, causing him to fall down to Borneo. However, Tom lands on a hammock while Spike is in it and gets back into his car with Jerry following him down to the island. They then race to the finishing point of the Borneo leg. In the production office, the producers announce that the final leg of the race back to Hollywood will involve them traveling around the world back to the finishing point in only five minutes. They are then transferred into jet cars and they race back to Hollywood. The race back involves them messing up various tourist destinations and leaving a path of destruction other continents such as Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

 (turning the Taj Mahal
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal is a white Marble mausoleum located in Agra, India. It was built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal...

 into a spinning top, shrinking the size of Mount Everest
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

, destroying the Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in northern China, built originally to protect the northern borders of the Chinese Empire against intrusions by various nomadic groups...

) and Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 (St. Basil's Cathedral into pinball then destroying it, going past the Leaning Tower of Pisa
Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa or simply the Tower of Pisa is the campanile, or freestanding bell tower, of the cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa...

 at great speed, the force putting it straight up, destroying the Colosseum in Rome, turning a castle into a trailer park, and flying through the Eiffel Tower
Eiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...

, the force turning it into a pretzel and flying past Big Ben, the force, again, forcing most of the inner workings out and turning it into a cuckoo clock, demolishing Stonehenge
Stonehenge
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument located in the English county of Wiltshire, about west of Amesbury and north of Salisbury. One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks...

, forcing a mans kilt off, the force revealing the lochness monster in the lake, making it falling love with the half-naked man) and flying into the U.S.A (forcing the Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886...

's Toga
Toga
The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a cloth of perhaps 20 ft in length which was wrapped around the body and was generally worn over a tunic. The toga was made of wool, and the tunic under it often was made of linen. After the 2nd century BC, the toga was a garment worn...

 off, revealing a bikini
Bikini
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 and forcing the Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is a steep-sided canyon carved by the Colorado River in the United States in the state of Arizona. It is largely contained within the Grand Canyon National Park, the 15th national park in the United States...

 shut). At the finish line, the Biff and Buzz wait are waiting for them. Buzz soon witnesses them coming and takes the binoculars from Biff while Biff is still wearing them and nearly chokes Biff to death. Tom and Jerry's jet planes begin to fall apart near the finish line, but they are able to drive them just a bit farther and they both move across the finish line at the same time making the race it a tie (For the record, the scene from take-off to finish lasts 4 minutes and 52 seconds).

Although they both win because of the tie, the producer says according to their contract, since they tied, they have to do the race all over again. Enraged, Tom and Jerry maul the producer and take the key to the mansion from him. The producer, angry and disoriented, decides to change Hollywood's focus to family programming. The main boss then zaps him into dust for having a family friendly attitude. The main boss, subsequently makes the producer's assistant the head of Globwobbler studios. At the end, all is well with Tom and Jerry who share the mansion until the owner of their previous house shows up who orders Tom to get rid of Jerry. The movie ends with Tom chasing Jerry around their new home.

"Fabulous Super Race" contestants

This table tells the characters, their cars, biography, finishing place, cause of elimination and how long they lasted in the race.
Character Car/s driven Description Finishing place Death and/or Elimination Race duration
Tom
Tom Cat
Thomas "Tom" Cat is a fictional character and half of the academy-award winning Tom and Jerry cartoon cat-and-mouse duo. He is a blue/grey anthropomorphic cat who first appeared in the 1940 animated short Puss Gets the Boot...

Orange Chevrolet Malibu
Chevrolet Malibu
Malibus and all other Chevelles were completely restyled for 1968 with semi-fastback rooflines on two-door hardtops and wheelbases split to on two-door models and 118 for four-door sedans and station wagons. Engine offerings included a new V8 rated at that replaced the V8 that had served as the...

 lookalike (Hollywood-Borneo leg)
Orange Jet-Car (Borneo- The World) (The World-Hollywood leg)
A house cat, guarded with the task of getting rid of Jerry. 1st place (Tied with Jerry) Winner (Survived elimination in Antarctic-Australia leg) Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon-Antarctic-Eliminated-Australia-Revival-Borneo-The World-Hollywood (Finish)
Jerry
Jerry Mouse
Jerry Mouse is a fictional animated character, one of the main characters in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's series of Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon short films. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, Jerry is a brown anthropomorphic mouse, who first appeared in the 1940 MGM animated short Puss...

Blue Mini Chevrolet Corvette C3 Stingray
Chevrolet Corvette C3
The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 1968 through 1982 model years. Corvette chief Zora Arkus-Duntov wanted a striking new Corvette; although engines and chassis components were mostly carried over from the previous generation, its...

 lookalike (Hollywood-Borneo leg)
Blue Jet-Car (Borneo-Hollywood leg)
A mouse who lives in Tom's house, who is always tried to get rid of by Tom. 1st place (Tied with Tom)[Jerry is the only character to never get eliminated] Winner Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon-Antarctic-Australia-Borneo-The World-Hollywood (Finish)
Grammy 1940s Pink Ford Hotrod An elderly woman who entered the race with her dog Squirty to feel the adrenaline of a race and to win a mansion. 2nd place Tom threw Squirty into a whale's mouth, causing Grammy to go after him and supposedly get eaten. The whale later spits her and her car out. Later, during the Borneo leg of the race, Tom pops the balloons that keep her car in the air, causing them to fall. Grammy and Squirty then fight for a parachute which turns out to be a lunch bag, and fall to the ground and are squashed by their car. Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon-Antarctic (1st Elimination) -Australia (Revival)-Borneo (Died)
Gorthan, Destroyer of Light Converted 4-wheeled motorbike The "Destroyer of Light" from the pits of Niltor who also owns a greeting card and flower shop. 3rd place When the commentators, Buzz and Biff qustioned Gorthan on the old "Your Tongue Will Stick to a Frozen Metal Pole" trick. Gorthan thought it was a lie and Buzz and Biff dared Gorthan to do it on the South Pole. His tongue got stuck and the ice on Gorthan's side was cracking. Buzz and Biff were safe while Gorthan and his car wandered aimlessly in the Antarctic, but not before literally cursing Biff and Buzz. He was the only loser who did not die or have a hinted death. Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon-Antarctic (Eliminated)
Steed Dirkly 1980s Light Blue Convertible Coupe Race Car (resembles a 1987-1992 Camaro Iroc-Z
Chevrolet Camaro
The Chevrolet Camaro is an automobile manufactured by General Motors under the Chevrolet brand, classified as a pony car and some versions also as a muscle car. It went on sale on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang...

 The car has t-tops and the hood louvers, indicating that it is a Z28 or Iroc-Z])
A self-obsessed playboy who wants to donate the mansion to a "charity" (himself). 4th place A lightning bolt struck an umbrella in Steed's car, causing it to sink. After his car sank, Steed spotted a mermaid
Mermaid
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...

 and fell in love, but the mermaid was a monster and fed Steed to her offspring.
Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon-Antarctic (Died)
Mallory Macdoogle Red Minivan
Minivan
Minivan is a type of van designed for personal use. Minivans are typically either two-box or one box designs for maximum interior volume – and are taller than a sedan, hatchback, or a station wagon....

 (resembles a 1993 Ford Aerostar
Ford Aerostar
The Ford Aerostar is a minivan produced by Ford Motor Company for the North American market; the first such design by Ford, it was sold from the 1986 to the 1997 model years. It was sold in both passenger van and cargo van configurations in two body lengths with both rear wheel drive and all wheel...

)
A caring mother who enjoys playing soccer (hence the nickname "Soccer Mom"). 5th place Tom switched a sign in the Amazon and that led her into a quicksand pit, she called the assistance of extermination company Gonestar
OnStar
OnStar Corporation is a subsidiary of General Motors that provides subscription-based communications, in-vehicle security, hands free calling, turn-by-turn navigation, and remote diagnostics systems throughout the United States, Canada and China. A similar service is known as ChevyStar in Latin...

 but the computer took too long and Soccer Mom escaped before she was swallowed by the quicksand. She helped Jerry to the right way and gave him an orange. She is then thought to have been eaten by insects.
Hollywood-Mexico-Amazon (Eliminated)
Dr. Professor Anti-Matter powered car He has developed many inventions that have changed the world and more. Disqualified The Self-Destruction switch in the Anti-Matter engine was triggered by Biff, Dr. Professor tried to save it but he, his car and his pit tent flashed and there was nothing left of him. Died before the race.

Widescreen

This was the third Tom and Jerry film to be filmed in widescreen (the first two being Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Tom and Jerry: The Movie is a 1992 American animated musical film directed by Phil Roman, and produced by Film Roman and Turner Pictures. It is a film adaptation of the Tom and Jerry series of theatrical shorts....

, due to its theatrical release back in 1993, and Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars is a Tom and Jerry outer-space-themed direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.-Plot:...

) and the second one to be filmed in the high-definition
High-definition video
High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1,280×720 pixels or 1,920×1,080 pixels...

 format (the first being Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars
Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars is a Tom and Jerry outer-space-themed direct-to-video film produced by Warner Bros. Animation.-Plot:...

), although the Region 1 DVD was in full screen (cropping the left and right of the image), though not pan and scan
Pan and scan
Pan and scan is a method of adjusting widescreen film images so that they can be shown within the proportions of a standard definition 4:3 aspect ratio television screen, often cropping off the sides of the original widescreen image to focus on the composition's most important aspects...

 as the camera stays directly in the center of the image.

Like other television shows filmed in high-definition (such as American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

, Father of the Pride
Father of the Pride
Father of the Pride is an American animated television series that began broadcasting on NBC on August 31, 2004 and was part of a short-lived trend of CGI series in prime-time network TV .-Overview:...

, Curious George
Curious George (TV series)
Curious George is an animated television series based on the Curious George children's book series, which features Jeff Bennett as the voice of The Man with the Yellow Hat. Frank Welker, who voiced George in the 2006 feature film, returns here as the voice of Curious George. The stories of Season...

, and Out of Jimmy's Head
Out of Jimmy's Head
Out of Jimmy's Head was Cartoon Network's second live-action/animated television series. It is based on the live-action/animated telefilm Re-Animated that aired on December 8, 2006...

) and other films filmed in high-definition (such as The Proud Family Movie
The Proud Family Movie
The Proud Family Movie is a Disney Channel Original Movie which premiered on August 19, 2005. It also marked the end of The Proud Family animated Disney series.-Plot:...

, Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?, High School Musical
High School Musical
High School Musical is a 2006 American television film, first in the High School Musical film franchise. Upon its release on January 20, 2006, it became the most successful film that Disney Channel Original Movie ever produced, with a television sequel High School Musical 2 released in 2007 and...

, and The Land Before Time XII: The Great Day of the Flyers), the monitor the animation team would have worked from would have 16:9 and 4:3 safe areas so that the full screen version would not crop off too much of any important visual elements (such as characters). However, the film is broadcast in widescreen on Cartoon Network HD
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

.
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